I wrote articles a while back about wired and wireless local area networks (LANs) that sprung up in neighborhoods. These were usually created to exchange files, play games and discuss life. But politics were never discussed in this context.

This video shows users — perhaps system administrators — discussing some politics, the government in Cuba and what the Internet means for them. Here’s the video:

Cuban Internet in Screenshots

I took a couple stills from the video to highlight a few interesting images I saw.

Here’s a building junction point. Quite spidery.

Here cables run across rooftops and between buildings like telephone lines.

Does anyone recognize this switch?

Adrian says, “Everybody knows that we are being watched …”

The video reminded me of the way people in rural India used to share cable TV:

The Cuban government has deemed a number of jobs as eligible for self-employment, and “computer programmer” is one of them. This video and the recent movement in Cuba makes me hope that innovation and connectivity is on the rise for these hackers, and that ETECSA might just hire them so they can no longer hack, but help to connect their country.

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Based in Los Angeles, Larry Press is a professor of information systems at California State University at Dominguez Hills and a senior editor covering tech issues here at aNewDomain.net. Check his Google+ profile to contact him or see what else he is up to: http://bit.ly/viXqr4.

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